Today in Cold War History
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949: Following the communist revolution led by Mao Tse Tung in China, the defeated Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan and took control of the island of Formosa. By the end of the year the Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa.
1951 – 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black US military unit, deactivated
1954: Dr J Robert Oppenheimer the controversial nuclear scientist has been re-elected as the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University New Jersey.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country’s first centralized military espionage organization.
1965 – General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
1968: Red China is now celebrating 20 years of rule by Mao Tse-tung and insists the purge of enemies to his rule will continue, it is now 2 years since the Great Cultural Revolution started which set out to purge and purify the 17 million members of the party, it is estimated 500,000 people were in the Heavenly Peace Square in Peking to celebrate 20 years of Mao Tse-tung rule.
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
1980 – Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days
1985 – The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis.
1988: Mikhail Gorbachev names himself head of the Supreme Soviet.
1989 – Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany

My goal with this blog is to offend everyone in the world at least once with my words… so no one has a reason to have a heightened sense of themselves. We are all ignorant, we are all found wanting, we are all bad people sometimes.